Tuesday, February 28, 2012

storm on the way

Snow is on the way, possibly a lot of it. For the first time this winter I may have to hunker down and go into farm-preservation mode. A heavy ice storm means raking roofs, preparing for a blackout, stacking wood indoors, and making sure there is plenty of feed on hand for the critters. At lunch I'll head out to the feed store to get some things (non storm related) and grab another sack of chicken feed for good measure. Never hurts to have a spare sack of Chicken feed about.

Here in New Hampshire we are expecting 6 to 10 inches of snow (statewide)and my mind is also in preservation mode since we are at the end of a 600 foot dirt driveway and we can't move until a friend plows us out. Candles, food, wood, feed for the chickens...yup, all set!! We will hunker down and wait for the onset of winter (finally) after one more load of laundry goes on the clothesline and one more load of wood is lined up on the porch. Can't forget more hay for the coop!! A little more work to do before "hunkering" time.

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